Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	great_a	king_n	persia_n	1,736	5	10.5071	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18509	Delectable demaundes, and pleasaunt questions, with their seuerall aunswers, in matters of loue, naturall causes, with morall and politique deuises. Newely translated out of Frenche into Englishe, this present yere of our Lorde God. 1566	Landi, Ortensio, ca. 1512-ca. 1553. Quattro libri di dubbi.; Chartier, Alain, 15th cent, attributed name.; Painter, William, 1540?-1594.	1566 (1566)	STC 5059; ESTC S119276	122,665	210

moued with affection we endeuour our selfes to shew pleasure vnto them whom we loue in suche sorte that good will is the effect of the affection ¶ Howe shall a man knowe them that are wicked By the example of the good ¶ Howe shall the vertue of man be knowen By aduersitie as golde by the fyer ¶ What was the cause of the renowme of Sim●n of Athens His being so curtuouse and gentile that he caused those beastes to be buried that made him to winne the prise of the games of Olimpus ¶ What made Pericles infamouse His great ingratitude inhumanitie to suffer Anaxagoras his schole-master to dye for hongre ¶ What moued Phocion to helpe them that were wicked Bicause he knewe the good had no nede of helpe ¶ Why did the Romanes eate and drinke openly before the gates of their Citie To take better occasion to geue meate to them that did want ¶ Wherof commeth the custome that kinges and Princes cause their Trompettes to be sounded when they go to dynner To geue warning to the pore to come take parte of their magnificence liberalitie and in many cōmon welthes the same custome is yet obserued ¶ Why did Alexandre laie his Treasure in the Temple of the Sunne To kepe it saufe for at that tyme holie thinges were had in suche reuerence that all thinges were saufe that were cōmitted and laied in the same For that cause Callisthenes laied in the Temple of Inno his doughters do wries to be kept ¶ What caused the victories and the great sloughter that Leonidas of Sparta and Themistocles made against Xerxes and his people and what was the cause that in the ende Xerxes was slaine by the meanes of Artabanus Bicause he had violated and polluted the holie thinges and spoyled the Temples The like happened to Brennus in the Temple of Apollo and Antiochus bicause he would haue sacked the Temple of Iupiter ¶ What is Religion after the mindes of the Philosophers It is a vertue so coupled with godlines that it can not be losed or seperated ¶ Who were they that the Philosophers called Religiouse and whiche Supersticiouse The Religiouse were they which applied their studie in the seruice of God the Supersticiouse were they that praied incessantly for the health and longe lyfe of their children ¶ Wherof commeth it that a man vnderstandeth one thing and doeth another Bicause of contrarie thinges we be wont to atteine like knowledge ●● bicause the mind attendeth to many thinges and the sensual appetite but to one But man most cōmonly liueth by reason beasts after their appetite ¶ Wherof commeth it that man aboue al creatures is proude Bicause he doth somewhat resemble god and being tamed aboue all other beastes by the knowledge that he hath of many thinges comprehendeth by his wit al sensible thinges and by the spirite al things intelligible ¶ Wherfore is a pluralitie of Princes euil not to be suffred All that which may be done by one is better done then when it is done by many Moreouer yf a kyngdome be tourned into Tirannie the tirannie of one is more sufferable then of many and to be short the reigne of one is the beste ¶ Wherof commeth it that we loue better to be counted an honest man then to be so in dede and haue an euill reporte Man alone is capable of honour and therfore eche man desireth to seme to be good and euery man would auoide the trauell that bringeth man to goodnes albeit without the same vertue can not be in man ¶ From whence came the custome not to name the newe borne before the seuenth daie Bicause they estemed the childe at .vii. daies of age to haue escaped the daunger ¶ Howe chaunceth it that in the beginning of sitting at the table to eate a man careth not how nere together he sitteth and at the ende of the meale he loueth to sitte at ease and at libertie When a man is hungrie he careth not for ordre for in eating we represent a Pyramis which combreth litle rowme ¶ Why did the Aegiptians desirouse to liue chast eate no salte Bicause through the heate therof it prouoketh Lecherie ¶ Why doeth Homere call salte a diuine thing Bicause it geueth taste to all meate and preserueth the same from stinking and hath a force and vertue generatiue ¶ Wherfore be we afaird to passe through a churchyarde Bicause it representeth our ende ¶ Wherfore did the Grekes fayne that there was a god that blamed all thinges To declare that there is nothing perfeçte ¶ Wherfore was Hanibal so hated of the Romanes Bicause he kept no fidelitie and despised al things touching god man ¶ What moued Ptolome king of Aegipte to ordeine the Romane people to be the tutors of his sonne Bicause he knewe the Romanes to be faithfull ¶ Howe was the common welthe of Sparta so longe time mainteined Some imputed the cause to the magestrates which knew well how to commaund some to the people bicause they knewe howe to obey ¶ Who was the cause of the great victorie that the Lacedemonians obteyned against the Iliryans The presence of their king which was but a childe perswaded thervnto by the counsell of their priestes ¶ Why were the Athenians so vnfortunate in warres Bicause they gaue charge and aucthoritie vnto many ¶ Wherfore did the Mossones a people of Asia kepe their seruauntes tied and as it were dayly locked vp To cause them to die for hongre yf they did any thing that was not honest For which cause Alexandre chastised them very rigorousely ¶ Wherfore did the Athenians establishe this lawe that yf a bond man were set at libertie and shewed him selfe vnkinde to his master he should returne againe into bondage To declare howe vnnaturall ingratitude is ¶ What caused the kingdome of Persia so much to florishe Xenophon saieth that it was the great loue that they bare to their king ¶ What thing is hardest for a man to do To be secrete Which Philippides affirmed when he besought Lycimatus his great frende not to reueale his secretes ¶ Why did Plato so muche refuse the liberalitie of Dionisius If Dionisius had bene alwaies nigh● vnto Plato to geue him somewhat Plato would euer haue refused it ¶ Howe ought a man to vse Hospitalitie Indifferently neither to muche nor to litle Which Homere affirmed when he ordeined that a traueller by the waie yf he would not tarrie he should not be pressed to tarrie but if he would that he should haue good chere made vnto him ¶ What order is to be obserued in helping of men Massurius Sabinus the Lawier resoluing this doubte saith that first we be bound to defende the pupilles that be committed to vs in gouernement charge vntill they be come to age Secondly to defende and helpe our gestes and such as be lodged in our houses Thirdly those whose ●utes and causes we take in hande to mainteine ¶ Who amonges the Auncientes were the most excellent in

of riches had made it to licenceous ¶ Wherof came it y e Marius Viriatus Ventidius Bassus wer so excellent in armes did suffer so paciently y e labors of y e warres The one was a laborer the other a sheperd the third was a horskeper wherby all thre were vsed to gret trauel to paine to heat and cold and to sparenes of life ¶ Why would the Capadocians neuer be without a prince ▪ Experience did teache them howe profitable it was to be vnder the gouernaunce of an other ¶ For what cause was Solon estemed a foole Bicause being pursued of Pifistratus the tyraunt he loued rather to begge throughout the worlde then to tarrie with Cresus kinge of Lidia who would haue geuen him part of his Realme to the intent he mighte iustely and vertuousely gouerne which by his aduise he thought that he might atteine ¶ Why would the Aetheniens neuer become subiect to any Prince Bicause from their childehode they were accustomed to liue at libertie ¶ With what goodnes ought he to be indued that doth reigne and gouerne He ought to excede his subiectes in bountifulnes so muche the more as he doeth surpasse them in degree and honor ¶ What is the true duetie of a Prince To make his subiectes to liue quietly and godly which thing he can not doe yf he him selfe be not good iuste and vertuouse ¶ What difference is there betwene the equall and iuste Prince and the Tyraunt The one vseth thoffice of a man the other of a beaste The Prince serueth as a father to his subiectes the Tyraunt deuoureth them ¶ Howe may a Tyraunt assure him selfe in his Tyrannie By putting to deathe those that are the chiefest and moost noble Such was the councell of Thrasibulus to Periander Tarquinius superbus to his sonne ¶ Why be men naturally afraide to rebell or encounter with a Prince Bicause that after the minde of Hesiodus the Prince is established by God ¶ Thinke you that God hath any regarde of thinges to come There is nothing more certaine Romulus testifieth the same being rescued from the water and nourished with the milke of a wolfe Abidus nourished with the milke of a Hynde and Cyrus of a Goate ¶ Is it any meruell then although the Persians did worshippe them as goddes No truely Moreouer Homer and Hesiodus do affirme that principalitie and gouernement is a gifte proceding from aboue geuen vnto men therby to knowe the power of God ¶ What is the nature of a liberall man It is not onely to geue for the reliefe of the necessities of others but also to giue liberally and with a free harte ¶ Howe did the auncientes by figure and painting represent the good successe and ende of all thinges They made an Image holding in the right hande a cuppe and in the lefte hande an eare of wheate with a poppi●● signifying thereby that he is well satisfied that contenteth him selfe with the fructes of the earth ¶ Wherfore was the gratitude and good remembrance that Eschines had towards his scolemaster Socrates so well cōmended Bicause he gaue him selfe to serue him and a greater pleasure he could not do him ¶ Wherof commeth it that Crassus being in the beginning verie couetouse became in the ende so liberall Through the gret importunitie of beggers that neuer suffred him in quiet ¶ Why was it said that Alexandre had conqu●red kingdomes and that Anaxarcus kept them Bicause that Alexander desperately for the sorrowe that he had slaine Clitus his great frende would haue killed him self and so haue lost at one instant the glorie of so many victories had it not bene for the great admonishions that Anaxarcus the Philosopher gaue him which preserued him from killing him selfe ¶ Why did Alexandre vse alwaies to carrie the Iliades of Homere about him Bicause by reding the factes of armes of the Auncientes he lerned the pollicies of the warres which encoraged him the more to y e desire of wars ¶ Of what disposition ought a sufficient Ambassadour to be Braue eloquente and wise For it is commonly saide that the prince is knowen by the Ambassador ¶ Why did the Romanes call their Ambassadours which went to treat of peace with the nauie Caduceatores Of the Caduceum of Mercurie which was a rodde that he helde in his hande signifying therby that the same rodde was a meane betwene them that fought and the aucthor bothe of peace and warre ¶ What was the cause that Nicomedes kinge of Bithynia instituted the Romanes to be his heyers In token of remembraunce of gratefulnes to be towardes them being by their ayde after he was chased from his estate by Mithridates king of Pontas restablished in the same againe ¶ What is that which maketh a Prince wicked To thinke that it is laweful for him to do all thinges and that all wickednes is sufferable hauing power to do what he liste His great welth and aboundaunce may be also the occasion and flatterers euill ministers and cruell men of warre suche as attende about his person ¶ Which is the hardest thing for him to do Dioclesian the Emperour saide to knowe perfectly howe to vse himselfe in his kingdome ¶ Why are Ciuile warres so greately to be contempned Bicause he that hath the vpper hande doeth not onely what he liste● but also they which take his parte do the same ¶ Why be Princes estemed like vnto God As God considereth the affection of man euen so the liberall and magnanimouse Prince ought to consider the hart and power of him that doeth him seruice ¶ Why was the liberalitie of Zeuxis reprehended of the Auncientes Bicause he gaue to receiue twise the valour ¶ Why did the Auncientes saie that it was no nede to offer eyther golde or siluer to Sainctes Bicause Sainctes are not couetouse and a●ericiouse as men be ¶ Why would not certaine of the Auncientes haue the yma●es of their goddes to be in Marble or other stone Bicause they are tractable and plyant to our praiers and requestes wherfore they demed it blasphemie to iudge them to be harde harted ¶ Wherof proceded the custome that the kinges of Persia had to geue golde and syluer to all women that they met and to men dartes and arrowes Gold and syluer is conuenable to women and weapons to men ¶ Why did Plato in his lawes forbid that any god should be made eyther of golde or siluer Bicause he demed those mettalles to be the verie poyson of the world ¶ Why did the kinges of Persia vse to rewarde women that brought forthe many male children Bicause they filled the cuntrie with souldiers which serued for the preseruation of the same ¶ Howe was Caes●r healed of the falling euill By sobrietie and abstinence from wine ¶ Why haue many wise men studied to be obscure in these writinges To astoyne dul wittes at the first sight therby to encorage the studiouse to serche the mysteries and secretes of the same ¶ Wherof commeth it that the moost